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Josiah, in your world, real does not mean real. Now, either Jesus body and blood are really present in the elements of the bread and wine or they are not really present. You try to straddle a nebulous world where real doesn't mean real. Real only means it's mysterious and somehow the bread and...

I listen. Your answers are not clear. Call it a...mystery. Do you not believe that a sacrament confers grace upon the recipient?

God delivers his redemption by grace, through faith, not of works, lest you should boast. Therefore, forgiveness is not attained by performing a so-called "sacrament". Forgiveness is attained solely by God's choice to forgive. God's call to the redeemed saint is to confess our sins, because God...

The word is correct. The theology created by the Roman Church is wrong because it calls the "giving of thanks" a sacrament, meaning that a special grace is imparted upon the recipient because of the works done by the recipient. Paul addresses this false concept in Romans 11, verses 5 & 6. "So...

One refrains because one is in unconfessed sin. The Corinthians didn't refrain while being in unconfessed sin and God judged them. You seem confused by obedience for obedience sake here. There does not have to be bread turned to human flesh or wine turned to blood for a Christian to obey what...

Correct. Sins are not forgiven by taking communion. Sins are forgiven by repentance and confession. (1 John 1:9) Communion is about remembering the atoning work of Christ by which God graciously pardons those whom he chooses to pardon. If you come to communion with known sin that is unconfessed...

Nope. Other synonyms should be used because Rome has a twisted concept of grace. Perhaps we can use Thanks or Thanksgiving to better convey the meaning. As for real presence, I have told you that Jesus is really present with us. What doesn't happen is the communion wafer doesn't become Jesus...

Right. All it means is thanks or thanksgiving. It has nothing to do with a sacrament where there is an alleged giving of grace because of an action by a human. Therefore, it is an term that we should forego because it has been misapplied by the Roman Catholic Church.

I don't struggle with what has been penned in scripture. First, eucharist is the wrong term to use for communion since it's been co-opted as a sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church. Since grace is not given out based upon partaking of communion or upon being baptized, the term sacrament is...

You seem to struggle with what is real and what is not real if you deny the bread and wine really change into body and blood. Perhaps really means not really, but symbolically.

North American Baptist

Well, if you are taking Jesus literally, then you must do so for the entire passage. Note that the dialogue is after he's fed to 5000 with a few loaves of bread and some fish. Since in the entire passage Jesus is using a metaphor to connect to the manna provided for the chosen people during the...

Yet, you refuse to share your church affiliation. Your choice to not disclose.

Sure it's cannibalism. You eat human flesh and drink human blood. You are, by all definition, a cannibal. Since God had strict regulations on drinking blood, we can be sure God didn't change his mind.

You tell me since you seem to be tossed by the waves of emotion.

Why would Jesus want you to be a cannibal?

He is present everywhere. He is not magically turning bread into human flesh or wine into human blood in order to convey a special dispensation of grace upon a person. The teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church are turning a simple and beautiful remembrance into a magical...

What church is it presently? You seem to be a wanderer.

Jesus is REALLY present always. "And behold I am with you always, to the end of the age." Baptist's believe this. We just don't make a wafer and wine turn into human flesh and human blood.

Sure I have. You simply reject it out of hand because your church taught you something else and you refuse to objectively consider that Jesus words are figurative.